Equal Pay for Equal Work: The Story of the Struggle for Justice Being Made by the Women Teachers of the City of New York

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B. F. Buck, 1910 - Počet stran: 570

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Strana 185 - No member of this State shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land, or the judgment of his peers.
Strana 256 - The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this State may be educated.
Strana 17 - If to feel, in the ink of the slough And the sink of the mire, Veins of glory and fire Run through and transpierce and transpire, And a secret purpose of glory in every part, And the answering glory of battle fill my heart...
Strana 189 - Class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others, is prohibited, but legislation which, in carrying out a public purpose, is limited in its application, if within the sphere of its operation it THE POLICE POWER OF THE STATES affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within the amendment.
Strana 189 - The guaranty of the equal protection of the laws means the protection of equal laws. It forbids class legislation, but does not forbid classification which rests upon reasonable grounds of distinction. It does not prohibit legislation, which is limited either in the objects to which it is directed or by the territory within which it is to operate. It merely requires that all aersons subjected to such legislation shall be treated alike under like circumstances and conditions both in the privileges...
Strana 185 - Among these no proposition is now more firmly settled than that it is one of the fundamental rights and privileges of every American citizen to adopt and follow such lawful industrial pursuit, not injurious to the community, as he may see fit.
Strana 191 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and ran never be made arbitrarily, and without any such basia: Gulf etc.
Strana 187 - Constitution, do not mean a statute passed for the purpose of working the wrong. That construction would render the restriction absolutely nugatory, and turn this part of the Constitution into mere nonsense. The people would be made to say to the two houses...
Strana 17 - To go on forever and fail and go on again, And be mauled to the earth and arise, And contend for the shade of a word and a thing not seen with the eyes: With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right...
Strana 186 - Liberty in its broad sense, as understood in this country, means the right not only of freedom from servitude, imprisonment or restraint, but the right of one to use his faculties in all lawful ways, to live and work where he will, to earn his livelihood in any lawful calling, and to pursue any lawful trade or avocation.

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